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We dont take whole trees. You do. And how billions of pounds of our cash is funding this. Logging naturalforests and converting them into pellets to be burned for electricity, that is absolutely insane. Theres no other word for it. This is britains biggest Single Source of electricity. The Drax Power Station in yorkshire used to burn coal, but its switched to burning wood pellets as part of the uks drive to cut Carbon Emissions. And that means the company has received around £6 billion in green subsidies. Theres just one problem. Burning wood pellets actually gives out more Greenhouse Gases t...

we don't take whole trees. you do. and how billions of pounds of our cash is funding this. logging naturalforests and converting them into pellets to be burned for electricity, that is absolutely insane. there's no other word for it. this is britain's biggest single source of electricity. the drax power station in yorkshire used to burn coal, but it's switched to burning wood pellets as part of the uk's drive to cut carbon emissions. and that means the company has received around £6 billion in green subsidies. there's just one problem. burning wood pellets actually gives out more gr...

Forest here in british columbia and there's a listing here for over 600 acres — that's about a square mile of primary forest. and when you look up the results, this is interesting — nearly all of the bidders were timber companies, but they were all outbid by drax�*s pallet firm, pinnacle. this is what drax has bought — rare old—growth primary forest. drax initially told us that logging the area would reduce the risk of wildfire because many of the trees are dead. then, it said it had transferred the logging licence to another company. but we checked — drax still holds the licence. ...

We've found another section of primary forest where drax bought the logging licence. ok, here we are. let's go and have a look, shall we? the company claims neither of the logging sites are primary forests because they're near roads. but they appear to meet the un definitions of primary forests, which don't mention proximity to roads. drax had to build a track 500 metres long just to get to this site. wow, look at this. pinnacle drax. oh, yeah, look. goodness me. this whole area was logged in the matter of a couple of weeks. it's devastating.

We've found another section of primary forest where drax bought the logging licence. ok, here we are. let's go and have a look, shall we? the company claims neither of the logging sites are primary forests because they're near roads. but they appear to meet the un definitions of primary forests, which don't mention proximity to roads. drax had to build a track 500 metres long just to get to this site. wow, look at this. pinnacle drax. oh, yeah, look. goodness me. this whole area was logged in the matter of a couple of weeks. it's devastating.